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Winfield Scott

Title : Winfield Scott on horseback.jpg
Year : 1901 ( 1900s )
Authors : Northrop, Henry Davenport, 1836-1909
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Publisher : Philadelphia, National pub co.
Contributing Library : The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor : Sloan Foundation

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ADMINISTRATION OF JAMES K. POLK. 617 Scott^ avoiding a direct attack, turned theenemys I ^t, i^eized the heights commandingtheir position, and drove them from theirworks with a loss of three thousand prisonersand forty-three pieces of artillery. SantaAnna mounted a mule, taken from his car-riage, and fled, leaving the carriage and hisprivate papers in the hands of the Americans.Besides their prisoners, the Mexicans lostover one thousand men in killed and wounded. the second city of Mexico, containing eightythousand inhabitants, was occupied. Gen-eral Scott established his headquarters atPuebla, and awaited reinforcements. Theterms of the volunteers would expire inJune, and they refused to re-enlist, as theywere afraid to encounter the yellow feventhe scourge of the Mexican climate, theseason for which was close at hand. Theywere returned to the United States and Gen-

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  • bookpublisher:Philadelphia__National_pub_co_
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